Old angel midnight
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-19692016
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'Old Angel Midnight' is a treasure trove of Kerouac's experiments with automatic writing, a method he practiced constantly to sharpen his imaginative reflexes. Recorded in a series of notebooks between 1956-1959, what Kerouac called his 'endless automatic writing piece' began while he shared a cabin with poet Gary Snyder. Kerouac tried to emulate Snyder's daily Buddhist meditation discipline, using the technique of 'letting go' to free his mind for pure spontaneous writing, annotating the stream of words flowing through his consciousness in response to auditory stimuli and his own mental images.
Main title:
Old angel midnight / Jack Kerouac ; preface by Ann Charters, Michael McClure.
Author:
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, author
Imprint:
San Francisco : City Lights, 2016.
Collation:
88 pages ; 21 cm.
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ISBN:
9780872867031 (pbk)
Dewey class:
812.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
1836532